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maxim[5][26] = "Let us strive after purity of heart, for the Holy Spirit dwells in candid and simple minds."; | maxim[5][26] = "Let us strive after purity of heart, for the Holy Spirit dwells in candid and simple minds."; | ||
maxim[5][27] = "The Holy Spirit is the master of prayer, and causes us to abide in continual peace and cheerfulness, which is a foretaste of Paradise."; | maxim[5][27] = "The Holy Spirit is the master of prayer, and causes us to abide in continual peace and cheerfulness, which is a foretaste of Paradise."; | ||
maxim[5][28] = "If we wish the Holy Spirit to teach us how to pray, we must | maxim[5][28] = "If we wish the Holy Spirit to teach us how to pray, we must practice humility and obedience."; | ||
maxim[5][29] = "The fruit we ought to get from prayer is to do what is pleasing to the Lord."; | maxim[5][29] = "The fruit we ought to get from prayer is to do what is pleasing to the Lord."; | ||
maxim[5][30] = "A virtuous life consists in mortifying vices, sins, bad thoughts, and evil affections, and in exercising ourselves in the acquisition of holy virtues."; | maxim[5][30] = "A virtuous life consists in mortifying vices, sins, bad thoughts, and evil affections, and in exercising ourselves in the acquisition of holy virtues."; | ||
Revision as of 12:59, 28 May 2018
Virgin Mary, Mother of God
- Maxims from September 7 and 8
- To obtain the protection of our Blessed Lady in our most urgent wants, it is very useful to say sixty-three times, after the fashion of a Rosary, “Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me.â€
- When we make this prayer to our Blessed Lady, we give her every possible praise in the least possible compass, because we call her by her name of MARY, and give her those two great titles of Virgin, and Mother of God, and then name JESUS, the fruit of her most pure womb.